Quotes on Tied

Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their enemies' heads. Where they went they brought their love of learning and their skills in bookmaking. In the bays and valleys of their exile, they reestablished literacy and breathed new life into the exhausted literary culture of Europe. And that is how the Irish saved civilization.

Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an old silent movie, to a runaway locomotive rushing headlong toward a very singular catastrophe

If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me; _x000D_ For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.

Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

My liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.

My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare is intimately tied up with the welfare of wildlife. Well may conservationists proclaim that by saving the lives of wild species, we may be saving our own.

I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.

O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.

Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.